WEBVTT ASKED FOR HELP, TURNED HIM I>> IT IS WORRISOME.REPORTER: BETTING DESTRUCTIONAND POSSIBLY DEATH WOULD NET BIGBUCKS ON THE STOCK MARKET,THAT'S WHAT FEDERAL AGENTS SAYMARK BARNETT WAS WAGING.THE 48-YEAR-OLD OCALA MAN ISACCUSED OF MASTERMINDING ASCHEME TO PUT BOMBS IN TENTARGET STORES IN DIFFERENTSTATES ACROSS THE EAST COAST, TODRIVE DOWN THE COMPANY'S VALUEAND BUY IT'S STOCK CHEAP.INVESTIGATORS CLAIM BARETT BUILTDEADLY BOMBS INSIDE PASTA ANDBREAKFAST FOOD BOXES USINGGUNPOWDER HE WAS KEEPING IN ASHED AT HIS HOME, THEY SAYBARNETT TRIED RECRUITING SOMEONETO PUT THE BOMBS ON TARGETSHELVES, THEY SAY INSTEAD, THATPERSON TURNED TO LAWENFORCEMENT, A STING WAS SETUPAND BARNETT WAS ALLEGEDLY CAUGHTON AN AUDIO RECORDING TALKINGABOUT THE PLOT.>> GUYS IN TACTICAL VESTS, SAIDFBI.REPORTER: BARNETT'S NEIGHBORSSAW THE CONVOY OF AGENTS THATSURROUNDED HIS HOME DURING HISARREST.SINCE HE'S A FELON ON PROBATIONAND A SEX OFFENDER, SOME SAY HISARREST WASN'T SHOCKING, BUTTHESE CHARGES ARE STILLDIFFICULT TO FATHOM.>> THE THOUGHT PROCESS TO GETFROM A TO B ON THAT BOGGLES MYMIND.MY WIFE, SINCE SHE DOES 90% OFOUR SHOPPING COULD'VE PICKED UPONE OF THOSE PACKAGES.IT'S SCARY.REPORTER: A TARGET SPOKESPERSONTELLS US IN A STATEMENT TARGET COMMENDS THE LAWENFORCEMENT AGENCIES RESPONSIBLEFOR APPREHENDING THISINDIVIDUALSUSPECT MARK BARNETT IS BEING

Federal agents arrested an Ocala man accused of planning to put bombs in Target stores because he allegedly believed it would earn him money.

Mark Barnett, 48, is accused of trying to recruit someone to put ten bombs in ten different Target stores all over the east coast.

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Agents said Barnett believed the bombs would force Target stock to fall, and he planned to purchase that stock when it did so that he would make money during an "eventual rebound," according to federal documents.

Barnett is accused of filling empty food boxes, which had pasta and breakfast bar logos on the packaging, with gunpowder and a contraption to ignite it. Agents found matching materials in a shed behind Barnett's home.

The bombs, according to ATF agents cited in the documents, could have caused property damage, injury or death.

In the documents, officials allege that Barnett tried to recruit someone to drive up the east coast of the United States and place the bombs on Target store shelves. That person, instead, turned to law enforcement.

An investigation was launched, and detectives said they captured Barnett talking about the plot in a recorded phone call between him and the person who they say he was trying to hire as an accomplice.

Investigators said Barnett gave that person gloves and gas money and warned that the bombs could "take your hand off," according to the documents.

People who live in Barnett's neighborhood told WESH 2 News that several FBI and ATF agents surrounded his home.

One neighbor said that because Barnett is a known, convicted sex-offender, his arrest was not shocking, but the accusations against him are still hard to fathom.